Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do

From:

Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:27:54 -0600

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On 12/6/2011 11:47 PM, Roedy Green wrote:

You could least write a program for DOS and have it run on any DOS or
Windows machine. Because of browsers you can't even do wora anymore
even within Windows. From a practical point of view, JavaScript and
browsers mean programmers spend more time dealing with tweaking to
make code work everywhere than they did before. Command line stuff is
great. It is browsers, JavaScript and forms that drive you nuts.

I wasn't around for DOS, but certainly any era of Windows that I lived
through never had a "WORA" effect, even if you limit it to just Windows
machines (possibly even to just a /version/ of Windows). On top of that,
in my lifetime, there have only been 2 years where I was not in contact
with a non-Windows-based computers, so even limiting it to Windows isn't
limiting.

As someone who has done some limited browser + JS coding, it has not
been my experience that I spend any time tweaking to make code work
everywhere. I don't mean it to imply that this isn't the case, but I
will point that there are toolkits which paper over most of the
inconsistencies for you.

--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth